While each NBA team has until the final day of the regular season to sign players to a standard contract, the same does not apply to two-way contracts. As teams finalize their rosters heading into the final month of the season, teams will have until March 4 to ink players to two-way contracts. The Miami […]
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From Hot Hot Hoops
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Death, taxes, the Miami Heat sporting a top-flight defense. Believe it or not, that’s been the trend since Bam Adebayo entered the starting lineup full-time in 2019-20. You can’t refute that the Heat’s three-time All-Star has been indispensable for the team’s defense, which was a top-10 unit in each of the last six seasons entering […]
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While it wasn’t the most aesthetically pleasing brand of basketball, the Miami Heat washed away the tanking Brooklyn Nets, 124-98, Tuesday evening inside Kaseya Center. Miami was led by Bam Adebayo, who scored a game-high 23 points with nine rebounds on 11-of-24 shooting. Adebayo continued his torrid two-month stretch of play, as did Kel’el Ware, […]
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From Hot Hot Hoops
| about 13 hours ago
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Hoping to build off arguably their biggest win of the season against the Houston Rockets, the Miami Heat encountered the tanking Brooklyn Nets, a team on the opposite end of the scale from their recent counterpart. While it wasn’t always pretty, aesthetically, Miami still pulled away en route to a 124-98 win inside Kaseya Center. […]
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From Hot Hot Hoops
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The Brooklyn Nets have reached the part of the season where their games fade before the final buzzer. You sit through it. You register the score. And then, after a few days, it’s gone. By this summer, you probably won’t even remember you watched it. There’s no reason for it to linger in your memory. […]
From NetsDaily
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A brief stop at home before getting back on the road. The Brooklyn Nets came home for an afternoon matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday afternoon. The Nets put up a heck of a fight, but ultimately fell short. The losing streak is at eight. The opponent tonight is in the all too comfortable […]
From NetsDaily
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The Miami Heat are entering a crucial five-game stretch to make a playoff push, beginning with the first of two straight home matchups against the visiting Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night. Miami is 1-0 against the Nets already this year and will try to sweep their three-game season series by this weekend. The Nets are […]
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From Hot Hot Hoops
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The Sixers won three straight. The third win was a pretty crucial one, staving off the Miami Heat’s push for the sixth seed and evening the season series, putting the all-important tie-breaker still in play with the season series tied 1-1. Unfortunately, Joel Embiid suffered a flukey oblique injury and the Sixers proceeded to lose […]
From Liberty Ballers
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There are officially fewer than six weeks left in the 2025-26 regular season, where the Miami Heat have just 21 games left. Miami is still two games back of the Philadelphia 76ers for the sixth-and-final postseason slot, hoping to avoid its fourth-straight play-in. As we enter the final full month of the regular season, what […]
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From Hot Hot Hoops
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There are officially fewer than six weeks left in the 2025-26 regular season, where the Miami Heat have just 21 games left. Miami is still two games back of the Philadelphia 76ers for the sixth-and-final postseason slot, hoping to avoid its fourth-straight play-in. As we enter the final full month of the regular season, what […]
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Every organization has its strengths and weaknesses. For the better part of two decades upon arrival, one of Pat Riley and the rest of the Miami Heat front office’s redeeming qualities was acquiring (super)star talent. However, now the Heat’s speciality is drafting and developing said talent. Not all of them turn into stars, sans for […]
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Few players were tougher, physically and mentally, than former MiamI Heat veteran Udonis Haslem. Haslem was never the best player on the Heat, but the OG’s voice was always loud. But in one statistical category, his production spoke volumes as well. Over 4,800 days ago in Novermber of 2012, Haslem broke Alonzo Mourning’s record for […]
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| 3 days ago
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Signs of life against another Florida team might have been premature. The Rockets were largely outsmarted today by the Heat. You might say Miami nightlife is undefeated, and that playing at 3:30 in the afternoon was never going to work out well for the young Rockets, but there might have been a little more on […]
From The Dream Shake
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It’s been a while since the Miami Heat have earned a statement win, but they did just that on Saturday. They handed the now 37-22 visiting Houston Rockets a 115-105 loss inside Kaseya Center, spoiling Kevin Durant’s 32-point outing. The victory improves Miami’s record to 32-29 overall, closing the playoff seeding gap to .5 games […]
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Well, it turns out this was a highly-anticipated injury report for both teams. Ahead of their showdown with the Boston Celtics on NBC Sunday, the Sixers have officially ruled out Joel Embiid for their next three games with a right oblique strain. This happened to Embiid earlier in the week against the Miami Heat, when […]
From Liberty Ballers
| 4 days ago
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This is our GAMETHREAD: Chat live about the game here! Injury Report: Houston Rockets: Miami Heat: Projected Starting 5 (subject to change): Houston Rockets: Miami Heat: Broadcast Info: Come back to Hot Hot Hoops at game time to join our GameThread and chat about the game live with other Heat fans! *** To check out […]
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After a three-game win streak, the Miami Heat have since lost two straight. They will look to bounce back as they return to Kaseya Center to host the visiting Houston Rockets for an early weekend matchup Saturday. The Rockets are coming off a win versus the Orlando Magic in a game where Kevin Durant dropped […]
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After a hard-fought win in Orlando, the Houston Rockets travel to South Beach for a game about 40 hours later. This is a recipe for disaster. At least James Harden isn’t on the team anymore. The Heat are 31-29 and are coming off back-to-back losses against the Milwaukee Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers. They play offense […]
From The Dream Shake
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In their last game of February, the Sixers picked up one of their most important wins of the season. With the Miami Heat coming into town Thursday just a game and a half behind the Sixers for the sixth seed and final guaranteed playoff spot, the Sixers knocked them off 124-117. That seemed to take […]
From Liberty Ballers
| 6 days ago
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Despite trailing by as many as 16 in the second half, the Miami Heat, playing in their biggest game of the season, made it interesting down the stretch against the Philadelphia 76ers. However, the Heat could not close the door, with Philadelphia earning a crucial 124-117 win that could ultimately make a big difference as […]
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From Hot Hot Hoops
| 6 days ago
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A franchise record and a big standings win in one night — what a treat. The Sixers outlasted the Miami Heat 124-117 Thursday night. They are now 33-26, still in control of the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference. Tyrese Maxey dropped 20 in the first quarter, breaking Allen Iverson’s franchise record for made three-pointers, […]
From Liberty Ballers
| 6 days ago
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Miami Heat guard Norman Powell is done after one half of basketball against the Philadelphia 76ers with a right groin strain, the team announced moments before halftime. Powell, 32, was listed as questionable before the game with right groin soreness. But he was able to complete shootaround and was made active moments before the contest. […]
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From Hot Hot Hoops
| 6 days ago
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Game Details When: Thursday, February 26, 7:00 p.m. ETWhere: Xfinity Mobile Arena, Philadelphia, PAWatch: NBC Sports PhiladelphiaRadio: 97.5 The FanaticFollow: @LibertyBallers
From Liberty Ballers
| 6 days ago
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Game Details When: Thursday, February 26, 7:00 p.m. ETWhere: Xfinity Mobile Arena, Philadelphia, PAWatch: NBC Sports PhiladelphiaRadio: 97.5 The FanaticFollow: @LibertyBallers
From Liberty Ballers
| 6 days ago
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